Picking Forest Greens for Profit

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on July 1, 1978
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Money really does grow on trees. Picking forest greens for profit is easy when you know who to sell them to.

Make money picking forest greens for profit. Brush picking is the gathering of sword fern, salal, and other forest greens for sale to florist-supply houses.

Picking Forest Greens for Profit

Brush picking — the gathering of sword fern, salal, and other forest greens for sale to florist-supply houses probably won’t make you rich . . . but as a quick source of emergency cash in the Pacific Northwest, says Marie Chillson, it can’t be beat!


It’s a long way from San Francisco to Canada and back in a Volkswagen . . . but my husband and I had saved for that vacation for ages and we were enjoying every minute of it. Enjoying the trip, that is, right up until the tooth I broke on a piece of chicken in an Oregon roadside diner suddenly — and unexpectedly — blew $100 right out of our travel funds.

“Oh well,” Allen said, “we’ve looked forward to seeing Canada for so long that we can certainly wait a little longer. But we still have enough money to enjoy a leisurely drive back to San Francisco along the scenic coastal route.”

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